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Robert De Niro Would Have Watched Today’s World Cup Game with You

. . . if you had invited him over, you inconsiderate monsters. The Business Insiderreports that while filming a Warner Bros. movie in Brooklyn this morning—Nancy Meyers’sThe Intern alongside Anne Hathaway—the Oscar-winning actor realized that he had not made arrangements to watch today’s World Cup soccer game between the U.S. and Germany. Because, presumably, he did not receive any of your Brooklyn-area viewing-party Evites. (Just because he took a phone call during a Stanley Cup finals game does not mean that he should be blackballed from taking part in other professional sporting events, guys.)

As such, the studio reportedly sent out last-minute e-mails to nearby households in the Cobble Hill area, where production was taking place. One such neighbor forwarded the e-mail over to The Business Insider:

“Our lead actor, Robert De Niro, would very much like to watch the
World Cup game, today at 12p,” the email said. “Would it be possible
to place a small portable satellite on the building rooftop ASAP and
run a cable to the street to help facilitate this request?”

Alas, no last-minute satellite installations were necessary. The Cobble Hill neighbor apparently received a follow-up e-mail stating that De Niro had instead just “found a house of people watching [the game] and joined them.” If you are in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn, please interpret this news item as a delightful warning that the 70-year-old actor might be lurking through your neighborhood, peeking in windows, and looking for televisions set to World Cup games later this week.